Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel 1618 1/4 thaler

Stack's Bowers November 2022 Collectors Choice sale, lot 74609

This specimen was lot 74609 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2022), where it sold for $240. The catalog description^[1] noted, "GERMANY. Brunswick-Luneburg: Brunswick. 1/4 Taler, 1618. Zellerfeld or Goslar Mint. Friedrich Ulrich. PCGS EF-45. Featuring a robustly mustachioed wildman, this gunmetal gray issue offers some cobalt, magenta, and golden hues glistening about the devices and peripheries. From the Robert C. Knepper Collection." This quarter thaler was struck 1614-29 and despite the many years of production, is rather scarce. A half thaler (KM 51) also exists.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: silver.

Catalog reference: KM-50; Welter-1068.

Source:

• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The November 2022 Collectors Choice Ancient & World Coins Auction, Featuring the Pat Johnson Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.

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• 1613 quarter thaler, on the death of the duke
• 1617 half thaler, wild man reverse
• 1618 thaler, wild man reverse
• 1618 triple thaler, the duke on horseback with hat
• 1618 triple thaler, the duke on horseback without hat
• 1619 1/24 thaler (groschen)
• 1621 kipper 12 kreuzer, wild man dividing date, "·D·G·NO·IM·SEMA*"
• 1624-HS quarter thaler, wild man reverse
• Coins and currency dated 1618